Ebook: Post-War Lies : Germany and Hitler's long shadow
Author: Herwig Malte, Searle Jamie Lee, Whiteside Shaun
- Tags: Germany -- History., Germany -- Politics and government., National socialism -- Germany., Nazis -- History.
- Year: 2015
- Publisher: Scribe Publications Pty Ltd
- City: Chicago
- Language: English
- epub
A German bestseller Post-War Lies is a superb portrait of a torn generation: the Nazi Party's youngest members, those born between 1919 and 1927, who were raised on an ideological diet of racism and militarism. A number of them — from prominent politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher to writer Martin Walser — were later to become leading public figures in federal Germany. In this meticulously researched book, Read more...
Abstract: A German bestseller Post-War Lies is a superb portrait of a torn generation: the Nazi Party's youngest members, those born between 1919 and 1927, who were raised on an ideological diet of racism and militarism. A number of them — from prominent politician Hans-Dietrich Genscher to writer Martin Walser — were later to become leading public figures in federal Germany. In this meticulously researched book, Malte Herwig reveals how Germany handled these former party members. For nearly half a century, it was a case of ‘don't ask, don't tell'. While the US government held captured Nazi record